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Unity Magazine reviews “Getting Grit”

Unity Magazine media reviewer Julie Rehm is a writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. For many years she worked in the newspaper industry; now she produces publications for a nonprofit organization that serves women educators.

Grit has become a buzzword in the self-improvement vernacular. Passion backed with determination and resilience is a characteristic many successful people share. Positive psychology expert Caroline Adams Miller says you don’t have to be born with grit; the quality can be cultivated. She relates her story of developing grit as a young woman struggling with bulimia. “I embraced a passion for living, for finding happiness outside of trying to have a perfect body, and for giving back to others instead of trying to figure out how I could come out the sole winner,” she writes.

Part 1 of Getting Grit examines positive and negative grit. Good grit helps people overcome obstacles and change the course of history. Bad grit promotes cheating and cutting corners to get ahead. In Part 2, Miller lays out the steps to getting grit: happiness, goal-setting, self-regulation, risk-taking, humility, perseverance, and patience.

About Post Author

Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP is a pioneer with her ground-breaking work in the areas of goal-setting/accomplishment, grit, happiness and success. Caroline is the author of seven books, including Positively Caroline, My Name is Caroline, Creating Your Best Life and Getting Grit. Live Happy Magazine named Creating Your Best Life one of the top ten goal-setting books ever published and Getting Grit one of the ten books that will change your life in 2017. She has been featured in BBC World News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, U.S. News &World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR and CNN. Caroline is a graduate of Harvard University and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. And, she has more than three decades of unbroken recovery from bulimia.